"Summer could have started today and we would have been all pretty miserable having meetings," Ott said. "We're alive and we feel good. We feel confident going into Detroit."

The Red Wings will be without NHL playoff goal-scoring leader Johan Franzen, who will miss his fourth straight game because of concussion-like symptoms. Franzen has been cleared for light workouts, but doesn't seem to be on the verge of returning to the lineup to add to his franchise-record 12 goals.

"He's going to have to practice with us for a few days and feel good the next day before he plays again," Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said.

The Red Wings lost for the first time in nearly a month in Game 4, ending a franchise-record nine-game winning streak.

Henrik Zetterberg chose to take a glass half-full view of the way the series has gone.

"We got one out of two in Dallas, we're happy about that," Zetterberg said.

Captain Nicklas Lidstrom said the Red Wings can't rely too much on playing at home because the Stars are going to play with nothing-to-lose intensity.

"They are going to come out with the same desperation they did last night, and that's something we have to match," Lidstrom said when the team arrived back home Thursday. "We have to match their intensity. We have to try to stay out of the box too."

The Stars went ahead for good on a power play in Game 4 when Mike Modano scored on a one-timer early in the third period.

"Mike's a big-time player," Ott said. "Doesn't matter if he's getting a little bit older in his age, he still knows when to step up his game.

"For him to step up with a huge power play goal, wasn't a better time to do it."

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